Teen nearly loses hand after pal wakes him up with a running chainsaw in viral video-inspired prank

A TEEN was lucky to keep his hand after his friends' prank with a chainsaw went horribly wrong.

The 18-year-old victim fell asleep on the sofa after celebrating the Christmas holidays with four friends aged between 15 and 22 in the town of Wickede in the western German state of North Rhine-Westphalia.

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The friends decided to scare the sleeping teen with a running chainsaw. File pictureCredit: Getty Images

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In the original video, a Norwegian man is seen sleepingCredit: CEN

In the early hours of the morning one of his friends decided to play a joke by bringing a chainsaw into the house to re-enact a viral video trick they had seen on the internet.

The video involves a Norwegian who wakes up his sleeping buddy resting in a car by using a chainsaw.

But in the Norwegian video some safety measures were taken, such as removing the chain from the chainsaw.

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